Inside twisted Kansas cult where kids were beaten, starved and forced to work 16 hour days
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The chilling story behind an evil Kansas cult where children were starved, beaten and forced to work 16 hour days has been exposed in bombshell court documents.
Six members of the scheme known as ‘The United Nation of Islam and the Value Creators’ (UNOI) were convicted of conspiracy to commit forced labor earlier this week after a 26-day jury trial.
They were all high-ranking members or wives of the late founder, Royall Jenkins, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. One of the six, Kaaba Majeed, 50, was also convicted of five additional counts of forced labor.
The depraved group, branded a cult by a federal judge in 2018, operated in the shadows for over a decade between 2000 and 2012.
Victims as young as eight were beaten, starved and sexually abused. Children were forced to live in rodent-infested facilities and worked inhumane hours without pay.
In one of the most harrowing cases, a child was held upside over train tracks because he would not admit to stealing food when he was hungry. Another resorted to drinking toilet water because she was so thirsty.
The cult was founded by the now deceased Royall Jenkins in Maryland in 1978, before its headquarters moved to Kansas City, Kansas.
Parents in the group sent their kids to a school operated by the cult, which leaders ran without a license.
But what those parents didn’t know was that their kids were being sent across the US to work long, physically demanding days without pay, court records and victim accounts revealed.
As the group lined its pockets with funds from the illegal work, children like Kendra Ross were regularly beaten, starved, and sexually abused.
Ross, who is now 31, was just 11 years of age when she fell under Jenkins’ care.
‘There was just a fear of being in danger if I was to leave because of just the things Royall would say about people who left,’ Ross told officials in 2018 before the federal case was launched.
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